What is the minimum equipment for streaming through an external video capture card?

Question

Computers

I have an i5 3300 office computer and a couple of 16gb RAM sticks. What video card to buy so that you can safely stream AverMedia LGP2 video capture via usb card in HD 60 fps ~ 2500 bitrate? Interested in a budget solution? Will office cards work? Or 960 minimum?

PS4 stream source. The computer will load only the stream. Playing on other hardware through a capture card!

Answer 1

I'll throw off the stream config of a friend's PC (copied from the description on twitch). Streams from 6-7k bitrate through percent. CPU: Intel e5-2696v3
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GPU: ASUS GT 730 Silent OC
Motherboard: Jingsha x99-D8
Memory: 32Gb 2133MHz Jingsha
SSD: 256Gb Intel 545s Series
HDD: WD Blue 1 Tb WD10EZEX
Capture Card: AVerMedia 4K-GC573
PS: Chieftec CORE 600W
CPU Cooler: Crown CM-5
Monitor: Dell E2314HF 23
Webcam: Logitech C930e
He streams from the processor so that the picture is pleasant, so the main load falls on him. Capture card - AVerMedia 4K-GC573, vidyuha, while - ASUS GT 730 Silent OC. As I understand it, in this case it is needed mainly to display the picture on the second monitor, since the stream is through a percent.
Since the stream is processed with a curling iron and you have a capture card, then there will be no special load on either the percentage or the vidyuhi (except for the OS, OBS, etc.).
Yes, and you have a bitrate of 2.5k, from which I conclude that this is some kind of static game, and not dynamic, although in this case it does not matter.
So you can take at least the same 730, because in fact, you just need a computer for OBS, which will display a picture from the curling iron.

Answer 2

960 are no longer
considered the capture card captures the picture directly from the video output - any card that gives the desired performance in the desired game
The only question is where are you going to stream ... if payments are cut off everywhere)

Answer 3

I stream through LGP2, I was looking for another question, I stumbled upon this topic) I decided to tell you)
To stream through a CPU, you need quite a productive CPU. It is better to forget this topic immediately.
The i5 3 series already has a built-in quicksync encoder, you can safely drive a picture with a high bitrate through it. But, I can’t say how the previous generations of this encoder differ in quality, you need to check whether it will be normal. If not, then you can take the younger model from the latest quads, there is nvenc, and it either exists or not, in principle, it does not depend on the level of the card (more precisely, it depends, but the number of threads and buns that are not needed in the stream)
2, 5k bitrate is a terrible picture.
On twitch, the maximum bitrate is 6k, but it also crumbles during dynamic scenes.
Now I'm testing VK, there is a maximum of 10k bitrate, there is already a more acceptable picture. The most normal thing is to send it to YouTube in the region of 20k+.
If there is a more or less fresh laptop, then you can stream through it. I have an i5 11300/3060 laptop that sends 6k - quicksync to twitch and 51k - nvenc to youtube.
Above in the comments they show their streams, I didn’t want to stick it, but I’ll show it) Here too Hunt Showdown
All this is the same stream. 32 minutes is a good place, there you can directly evaluate how the picture will deteriorate on a dynamic stage on different versions of
twitch 6k https://www.twitch.tv/videos/1423536569 quicksync i5 11300h LGP2
vk 10k capture card https://vk.com /video-211340790_456239020 quicksync i5 12600k - the sound is messed up at the beginning, this is because of the settings
youtube 51k https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qa01J00dk3o nvenc 3060 laptop ASUS TUF Gaming Capture Box-CU4K30